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“Even if significant foreign aid can reach Gaza in the coming months to reverse the tide, scientists say that the long-term health consequences will be felt for decades.”

Sharing the hidden work/ woes behind qualitative analysis.

This week I chucked all my theme summaries from a master excel spreadsheet into a word file under structured headings.

I had somehow managed to squirrel away >9500 words!!

-> next stage of synthesis and refinement 💪

Starting the Research Academy with getting to know each other. All fellows are presenting themselves and their research. Very interesting to get insights into their work from all across Europe!

#ESCAP2025
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This diagram is from Gregory Bateson’s 1970 testimony on ´the roots of the ecological crisis.’ 😢

🙏 to my amazing supervisors and co-authors, and the SELCoH team and participants.

In this age of ‘big data’, community health surveys are still important to help us understand gaps in understanding symptoms in the community and guide avenues for preventative interventions.

Sociodemographic and psychosocial correlates of fatigue and chronic fatigue: A cross-sectional study from a South East London community survey A better understanding of fatigue and chronic fatigue symptoms in the community may lead to better targeted preventative interventions. This study aim…

Our paper on the sociodemographic and psychosocial factors of fatigue and chronic fatigue symptoms in South East London is out!

📈 fatigue symptoms are highly prevalent- 23.5 %

🔗 associated with reporting greater impact on function & less social support

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Short but insightful overview of the short history of CAMHS

In the 1970s, 1% of children and young people were receiving care in the precursor of CAMHS. It was estimated that between 7-20% may have had a “ definite functionally disabling psychiatric disorder”.

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Thanks to the kind man at London Bridge that helped with my 🚲 on the escalator when I was trying to rush for a 🚊 that never arrived.

Should have taken the 🛗!

But nice to know that strangers do help when you make questionable life choices!

Winnicott - Some thoughts on the word democracy - written 1950.pdf Some Thoughts on the Meaning of the Word ‘Democracy’ Written for Human Relations, June. First of all let me say that I realize I am offering comments on a subject that is outside my own speciality. So...

This 1950 Winnicott essay on “Some thoughts on the Meaning of the word ‘Democracy’” is an important reminder that we need to nurture the building blocks of society.

“The innate democratic factor in a community derives from the workings of the ordinary good home”

www.docdroid.net/i6OTOGZ/winn...

Psychology in the Classroom: First do no harm: Universal Mental Health Interventions in Schools Summary In this episode is a NIHR Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, discusses her recent paper titled   Where the authors ‘examine three areas: the types of potential harms and advers...

Dr. Carolina Guzman Holst discusses her most recent paper in this episode of 'Psychology in the Classroom'. She explores the rising #mentalhealth issues among #youngpeople in schools, and the effects of universal interventions like #CBT.

Listen below🎧
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This is such an interesting visual analysis of stark realities of prison over crowding by the Guardian and reminds me of the visual methods used by Forensic Architecture in showing people real and physical impacts of policies/events on individuals and communities.

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

The big science story this week was that the shingles vaccine appears to lower dementia risk

But they're not sure why

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wish that #Psych was more open to publishing findings that are important, even if we don't know the mechanism (yet)

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

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The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.

Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

A delicate spider web glistens in the morning light with dewdrops, set against a blurred background of plants and sunlight. Text on the image explains that nature-based solutions (NbS) use nature's own methods to address climate change, water scarcity, and other challenges. UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right corner.

Nature-based solutions harness the power of natural systems to help people and the planet thrive.

They offer cost-effective ways to tackle #ClimateChange, biodiversity loss, and pollution. www.unep.org/unep-and-nat...

Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

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Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData

It’s always useful to step back sometimes to think about how you think!

I suspect I am also using in other spheres this
“modeling process that can be described as qualitative, constitutive diagnostic modeling. That is augmented by pattern matching and other inferential processes.”

Fotograph shows a table with covers of books translated into German: back row: 5 books by Sarah J. Maas middle row: Toni Morrison, Bluest Eyes; Steven Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Orwell, 1984; Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants; Front row: Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why; Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; Art Spielman, Complete MAUS; Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid‘s Tale; John Green, For Alaska.

Freiburg, Germany, Central Station Bookshop (right @the center of the shop‘s entryway):
“This is a selection of books which are banned at schools in the US“.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
#FreedomToRead
@ala-pla.bsky.social
@librarypolicy.bsky.social

What are data spaces and what do they do? Learn more about data spaces: what they are, what they do and what’s next.

What are data spaces and what do they do? In this article, we will lay out what data spaces are, the function they perform, and how our work at the ODI on data stewardship and governance can contribute to how data spaces might realise their intended potential.
#Data #DataSpaces

FT is reporting that the Cabinet Office permanent secretary has been asked to come up with options to fix the ONS's number problems

This is what I wrote earlier this month: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/offi...

Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs Exclusive: Councils say multibillion pound debts caused by years of overspends on special educational needs support * Why scores of English councils could go bankrupt when hidden Send debt reappears Nearly 20 councils have warned publicly that they are at risk of insolvency because of multibillion pound debts caused by years of overspends on special educational needs support, the Guardian can reveal. Overspending on special educational needs and disability (Send) services in England is forecast to grow by nearly £2bn over the next 12 months, a Guardian investigation shows. Continue reading...

Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs

It was so incredible to hear this new song live yesterday.

Does anyone know when the album will be out/ the lyrics will be out as an anthology?

A polluted river filled with colorful discarded clothing and textiles floating in murky water. Overlaid text reads: "Extending the life of clothes should help the planet — not harm communities." The "Beat Waste Pollution" logo is in the bottom right corner.

Many used textiles are sent to the Global South, where poor waste infrastructure leads to pollution and health risks.

The solution? Better policies, responsible reuse & circular fashion to #BeatWastePollution.

#ZeroWasteDay info: www.unep.org/events/un-da...

Figure showing projected effect of HIV programme funding cuts in 26 countries from 2000 to 2050, on HIV-related deaths. Anticipated 24% cuts capture the range of effects given by the proportional cuts and reallocated prevention budget to treatment scenarios (scenarios 2 and 3), while PEPFAR discontinued captures the range of effects with and without mitigation (scenarios 4 and 5). The dashed black lines show a continuation of historical 8·3% year-on-year reductions in new HIV infections and 10·3% year-on-year reductions in HIV-related deaths from 2024 levels. Copyright: 2025 World Health Organization. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Proposed cuts to foreign aid could result in millions of HIV deaths and soaring rates of global HIV infections, new modelling study in The Lancet HIV estimates.

Explore the data 👉 tinyurl.com/5hud9dxm #MedSky

Congratulations RCGP and @victoriatb.bsky.social for producing a great resource on greener prescribing www.rcgp.org.uk/getmedia/f50...
@greenerpractice.bsky.social @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social

Defying the odds: Yasmin’s journey to becoming a doctor - The Sutton Trust We spoke to our alum, Yasmin, about her pursuit of a career in medicine.

People from working class backgrounds are heavily underrepresented in the medical profession.

Hear about the barriers that our alum, Yasmin, faced on her journey to qualifying as a doctor ⬇️

🧡 To make our online resources more accessible to everyone, we got a shiny new translation tool on our website! Providing information in 15 languages spoken in Lambeth, including Arabian, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Somali, Spanish, Yoruba and more...🧡

Check it out! at lambethlarder.org

10 million potential new HIV infections by 2030; 3 million potential more deaths, including 120,000 children, due to HIV-related causes by 2030. This could be the impact of HIV funding cuts.

A decline in funding for the HIV response could result in millions of preventable new infections and deaths, with up to 120,000 of these deaths affecting children.

International cooperation is essential to sustain the advances we’ve made in HIV prevention, testing, and treatment.

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UK child poverty numbers reach a record high - BBC News About 31% of children are living in relative poverty after housing costs, government figures show.

We predict 4.8 million children will be in poverty by the end of this parliament unless the govt takes urgent action including scrapping the two-child limit in its forthcoming child poverty strategy and stepping back from benefit cuts.  

www.bbc.com/news/article...

And the figure everyone wants to see - more new posts on new science now happening on bsky.

Ruth Curtice, Chief Executive at the Resolution Foundation, said: “Having set her new fiscal rules only last autumn, and faced with rising debt interest costs and a weaker outlook for the public finances, Rachel Reeves had little choice but to make a downbeat Spring Statement. “But while the Chancellor was right to balance the books, she was wrong to do so on the backs of low-to-middle income families, on whom two-thirds of the welfare cuts will fall. Over three million households will be worse off as a result of welfare changes. “Major cuts to Universal Credit were made so late in the day that the OBR was unable to assess them, suggesting that long-term change is playing second fiddle to short-term savings. This approach to welfare reform that rarely ends well for individuals or the Government. “The £3.6 billion trimming of departmental spending is a far cry from the austerity of the 2010s. But it is not pain-free either – crucial public services like courts, prisons and local government will feel the strain of reduced funding in the second half of this Parliament. “The Government’s welcome ambition to kickstart growth got closer to reality today, with planning reforms set to boost GDP in the coming years. But the outlook still looks bleak. Much has been made of the living standards pain Britain experienced during the 2010s, but the 2020s are still on track to be even worse.”

The Chancellor is right to balance the books, but wrong to do so on backs of low-income families.

Read the latest Resolution Foundation analysis here, which reveals that more than two-thirds of the welfare cuts will fall on the poorest half of the country ⤵️ buff.ly/7hCSNBR